ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses on conceptualizations, understandings and experiences of home, examining the extent to which the young women's sense of home was created or constrained, made or unmade. In addition, the young women's encounters with the attitudes and behaviour of other residents within their local neighbourhoods in the UK are explored and some of the routes through which ideas of home were defined and negotiated are considered. In analysis of the reception and settlement of asylum seekers and refugees, reference is often made to the analogy of the nation as a house or home, where hospitality is offered by the 'host' and received by the 'guest'. The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 established a dispersal system as part of the asylum process. While a history of British hospitality is frequently highlighted in government documents, in practice it is often pushed to the margins by the dominance of other concerns.
